Beth Fowler - Translator
@bethfowler.bsky.social
Translator (Portuguese/Spanish to English) | Literary translation | Art, Museum & Cultural Tourism translation
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Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and Lin King have won this year’s International Booker Prize with TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE! Congratulations to both author and translator!
This marks our second International Booker win in a row, following the success of Deepa Bhasthi’s translation of Banu Mushtaq’s HEART LAMP in 2025.
This marks our second International Booker win in a row, following the success of Deepa Bhasthi’s translation of Banu Mushtaq’s HEART LAMP in 2025.
May 19, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and Lin King have won this year’s International Booker Prize with TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE! Congratulations to both author and translator!
This marks our second International Booker win in a row, following the success of Deepa Bhasthi’s translation of Banu Mushtaq’s HEART LAMP in 2025.
This marks our second International Booker win in a row, following the success of Deepa Bhasthi’s translation of Banu Mushtaq’s HEART LAMP in 2025.
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It's dreich out there, but our spring workshop is coming!
On the 21st of March in Edinburgh, we'll discuss translation in the area of disaster risk reduction looking at languages and indigenous communities in Latin America, with Dr. Teresa Armijos Burneo.
Info: itiscotland.org.uk/events/sprin...
On the 21st of March in Edinburgh, we'll discuss translation in the area of disaster risk reduction looking at languages and indigenous communities in Latin America, with Dr. Teresa Armijos Burneo.
Info: itiscotland.org.uk/events/sprin...
January 30, 2026 at 9:22 PM
It's dreich out there, but our spring workshop is coming!
On the 21st of March in Edinburgh, we'll discuss translation in the area of disaster risk reduction looking at languages and indigenous communities in Latin America, with Dr. Teresa Armijos Burneo.
Info: itiscotland.org.uk/events/sprin...
On the 21st of March in Edinburgh, we'll discuss translation in the area of disaster risk reduction looking at languages and indigenous communities in Latin America, with Dr. Teresa Armijos Burneo.
Info: itiscotland.org.uk/events/sprin...
Publication day has finally arrived for my latest translation from Spanish: Singing to the Sun, by Regina Rodríguez Sirvent, published by Amazon Crossing.
This book was so much fun to translate, it still made me laugh even after my umpteenth revision!
#literarytranslation
This book was so much fun to translate, it still made me laugh even after my umpteenth revision!
#literarytranslation
January 20, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Publication day has finally arrived for my latest translation from Spanish: Singing to the Sun, by Regina Rodríguez Sirvent, published by Amazon Crossing.
This book was so much fun to translate, it still made me laugh even after my umpteenth revision!
#literarytranslation
This book was so much fun to translate, it still made me laugh even after my umpteenth revision!
#literarytranslation
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📣 Applications are OPEN for BCLT International Literary Translation & Creative Writing Summer School 2026 📣
Join us ONLINE from Monday 20 July - Friday 24 July 2026. Find out more & download an example programme on our website: shorturl.at/gy3yT
💡 Bursaries available
Join us ONLINE from Monday 20 July - Friday 24 July 2026. Find out more & download an example programme on our website: shorturl.at/gy3yT
💡 Bursaries available
January 14, 2026 at 12:00 PM
📣 Applications are OPEN for BCLT International Literary Translation & Creative Writing Summer School 2026 📣
Join us ONLINE from Monday 20 July - Friday 24 July 2026. Find out more & download an example programme on our website: shorturl.at/gy3yT
💡 Bursaries available
Join us ONLINE from Monday 20 July - Friday 24 July 2026. Find out more & download an example programme on our website: shorturl.at/gy3yT
💡 Bursaries available
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Our planned events for 2026: pub gatherings in Edinburgh (last Thursday of each month); Spring workshop in Edinburgh on 21 March (about indigenous language); Walking Weekend in the Spey Valley on 8-10 May; Autumn workshop in Edinburgh (early October); AGM and Christmas lunch in Glasgow, 12 December.
January 7, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Our planned events for 2026: pub gatherings in Edinburgh (last Thursday of each month); Spring workshop in Edinburgh on 21 March (about indigenous language); Walking Weekend in the Spey Valley on 8-10 May; Autumn workshop in Edinburgh (early October); AGM and Christmas lunch in Glasgow, 12 December.
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You’ve all read this, yes?
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
A moment that changed me: in the bombed-out ruins of an apartment block, I saw a book I’d translated
The sight of my work, torn and singed but still legible, made me realise the importance of translating and protecting stories – so they remain when everything else falls away
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:41 AM
You’ve all read this, yes?
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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👋 Hello lovely Blueskyers! Do I (or you?) know any gothic novel fans (or even better, with links to the UK publishing industry)? A student I know is keen to ask research questions about British gothic novels by women authors over the years and their correlation with societal changes. And pls share!
October 29, 2025 at 8:54 AM
👋 Hello lovely Blueskyers! Do I (or you?) know any gothic novel fans (or even better, with links to the UK publishing industry)? A student I know is keen to ask research questions about British gothic novels by women authors over the years and their correlation with societal changes. And pls share!
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And it includes children's books in translation too! 🥳
My good news has just come in! LOOK AT THIS! So pleased to see this! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Booker prize launches £50,000 children’s award
Children will help judge the new prize along with children’s laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:07 PM
And it includes children's books in translation too! 🥳
ARCs of my latest #literarytranslation just in - this one was a lot of fun! Singing to the Sun, by Regina Rodríguez Sirvent, out 20 Jan 2026 with Amazon Crossing. If anyone would like a review copy (UK), let me know!
October 10, 2025 at 9:20 AM
ARCs of my latest #literarytranslation just in - this one was a lot of fun! Singing to the Sun, by Regina Rodríguez Sirvent, out 20 Jan 2026 with Amazon Crossing. If anyone would like a review copy (UK), let me know!
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(Slightly belated) happy International Translators Day to all our members and friends!
October 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
(Slightly belated) happy International Translators Day to all our members and friends!
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In 2025, our editorial grants programme is dedicated to stories from seven European countries - Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Luxembourg & Malta. Read on to find out more and learn how to apply for a grant! #Funding #DigitalStorytelling bit.ly/3Vv0Pmw
Apply for a 2025 Europeana Editorial Grant | Europeana PRO
In 2025, our editorial grants programme is dedicated to stories from seven specific European countries. Read on to find out more and learn how to apply.
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September 4, 2025 at 10:24 AM
In 2025, our editorial grants programme is dedicated to stories from seven European countries - Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Luxembourg & Malta. Read on to find out more and learn how to apply for a grant! #Funding #DigitalStorytelling bit.ly/3Vv0Pmw
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📢 CPD: Translating botany: not all a bed of roses?
Join us in Edinburgh on 11/10/25 for what promises to be a fascinating autumn workshop focusing on plants and translation, run by our very own Lynda Hepburn.
Languages, plant talk and networking included. ☺️
itiscotland.org.uk/events/autum...
Join us in Edinburgh on 11/10/25 for what promises to be a fascinating autumn workshop focusing on plants and translation, run by our very own Lynda Hepburn.
Languages, plant talk and networking included. ☺️
itiscotland.org.uk/events/autum...
Autumn Workshop 2025 - ITI ScotNet
11/10/2025 @ 09:30 - 13:00 - ITI Scottish Network invites you to its autumn workshop: Translating botany: not all a bed of roses? with LYNDA HEPBURN To be held at The Quaker Meeting House, Edinburgh o...
itiscotland.org.uk
September 4, 2025 at 7:31 AM
📢 CPD: Translating botany: not all a bed of roses?
Join us in Edinburgh on 11/10/25 for what promises to be a fascinating autumn workshop focusing on plants and translation, run by our very own Lynda Hepburn.
Languages, plant talk and networking included. ☺️
itiscotland.org.uk/events/autum...
Join us in Edinburgh on 11/10/25 for what promises to be a fascinating autumn workshop focusing on plants and translation, run by our very own Lynda Hepburn.
Languages, plant talk and networking included. ☺️
itiscotland.org.uk/events/autum...
Any @pelta.bsky.social types into comic translation?
Hello. Glacier Bay is looking for a Portuguese (European) → English translator to consult on a project.
Relevant candidates, please reach out to
[email protected]
with the subject line: "Portuguese Translation"
and details of your relevant (comics) translation background + experience.
Relevant candidates, please reach out to
[email protected]
with the subject line: "Portuguese Translation"
and details of your relevant (comics) translation background + experience.
August 23, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Any @pelta.bsky.social types into comic translation?
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Israel is purposefully starving Palestinians to death in Gaza. Write to the Foreign Secretary to demand sanctions now using @pscupdates.bsky.social online action
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Write to David Lammy: Gaza is starving to death
palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk
July 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Israel is purposefully starving Palestinians to death in Gaza. Write to the Foreign Secretary to demand sanctions now using @pscupdates.bsky.social online action
palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/demandsancti...
palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/demandsancti...
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Hello friends, a new indie press has launched here in Edinburgh, with the aim to publish at least 6 books a year from writers from/residing within Scotland and southern Africa. www.bat.is/blog/batis-b...
Batis Books
www.bat.is
July 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Hello friends, a new indie press has launched here in Edinburgh, with the aim to publish at least 6 books a year from writers from/residing within Scotland and southern Africa. www.bat.is/blog/batis-b...
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Publishers outside of the UK - there is funding available to you for translating the works of Scottish writers! Applications are now open - deadline 18th August. #BookSky #Translation #Publishing
www.publishingscotland.org/what-we-do/s...
www.publishingscotland.org/what-we-do/s...
Translation Support and Funding | Publishing Scotland
Publishing Scotland Translation Fund This fund is administered by Publishing Scotland on behalf of Creative Scotland. The purpose of the fund is to support publishers based outside the United Kingdom ...
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July 22, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Publishers outside of the UK - there is funding available to you for translating the works of Scottish writers! Applications are now open - deadline 18th August. #BookSky #Translation #Publishing
www.publishingscotland.org/what-we-do/s...
www.publishingscotland.org/what-we-do/s...
Delighted to have my translation of a short story by Laura Ferrero included in this issue!
Issue 27 of The Manchester Review is Now Live!
We aim to bring together the best contemporary writing from a range of voices from across the globe.
We hope you enjoy reading our new issue.
www.themanchesterreview.co.uk
We aim to bring together the best contemporary writing from a range of voices from across the globe.
We hope you enjoy reading our new issue.
www.themanchesterreview.co.uk
Issue 27 - The Manchester Review
Image: © Courtesy of Manchester City Galleries Editorial Róisín Leggett Bohan, 3 poems Livi Michael, ‘Signs’ Immanuel Misfud, ‘Rue Garenne’ (trans. Ruth Ward) Cormac Culkeen, ‘My Dog Ate the Sun’ Laur...
www.themanchesterreview.co.uk
July 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Delighted to have my translation of a short story by Laura Ferrero included in this issue!
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Natalia García Freire A Carnival of Atrocities Victor Meadowcroft Explorations
Impressions and reflections on translating Natalia García Freire’s A Carnival of Atrocities by Victor Meadowcroft, published by World Editions. A Carnival of Atrocities is the second novel by Ecuadorean author Natalia…
Impressions and reflections on translating Natalia García Freire’s A Carnival of Atrocities by Victor Meadowcroft, published by World Editions. A Carnival of Atrocities is the second novel by Ecuadorean author Natalia…
Natalia García Freire A Carnival of Atrocities Victor Meadowcroft Explorations
Impressions and reflections on translating Natalia García Freire’s A Carnival of Atrocities by Victor Meadowcroft, published by World Editions. A Carnival of Atrocities is the second novel by Ecuadorean author Natalia García Freire. Set high in the Andes Mountains, the opening section of the novel is narrated by a character called Mildred Capa, whose mother has just died and whose father vanishes into the wilderness without explanation.
bookblast.org
June 21, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Natalia García Freire A Carnival of Atrocities Victor Meadowcroft Explorations
Impressions and reflections on translating Natalia García Freire’s A Carnival of Atrocities by Victor Meadowcroft, published by World Editions. A Carnival of Atrocities is the second novel by Ecuadorean author Natalia…
Impressions and reflections on translating Natalia García Freire’s A Carnival of Atrocities by Victor Meadowcroft, published by World Editions. A Carnival of Atrocities is the second novel by Ecuadorean author Natalia…
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Registration for the Bristol Translates 2025 NORLA keynote speech by Damion Searls is now open: go to the link below to register by email.
When? 7th July 17:00 BST
Where? Join online from wherever you are in the world!
When? 7th July 17:00 BST
Where? Join online from wherever you are in the world!
June 4, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Registration for the Bristol Translates 2025 NORLA keynote speech by Damion Searls is now open: go to the link below to register by email.
When? 7th July 17:00 BST
Where? Join online from wherever you are in the world!
When? 7th July 17:00 BST
Where? Join online from wherever you are in the world!
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It seems like only yesterday that we started this little YouTube channel & now here we are, five years & several hundred videos later, immensely proud of the incredible repository of literary & translation talent we've showcased to the world. Thanks to all who contributed!🎉
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May 29, 2025 at 11:03 AM
It seems like only yesterday that we started this little YouTube channel & now here we are, five years & several hundred videos later, immensely proud of the incredible repository of literary & translation talent we've showcased to the world. Thanks to all who contributed!🎉
buff.ly/L9ZSuwZ
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The School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Glasgow is seeking to appoint a Lecturer (LTS) in #Chinese. Please help spread the word!
For further details: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNC332/l...
For further details: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNC332/l...
Lecturer in Chinese (LTS)
College of Arts and HumanitiesSchool of Modern Languages & Cultures Lecturer in Chinese (LTS)Vacancy Ref: 174013Salary, Grade 7, £40,497 - £45,413 per annumAs part of plans to support and deve...
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk
May 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Glasgow is seeking to appoint a Lecturer (LTS) in #Chinese. Please help spread the word!
For further details: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNC332/l...
For further details: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNC332/l...
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The British Centre for Literary Translation is now part of Bluesky 🎉 We're looking forward to connecting with new and old followers. Help us spread the word and stay tuned for updates! #BCLT #Bluesky #literarytranslation
April 9, 2025 at 11:28 AM
The British Centre for Literary Translation is now part of Bluesky 🎉 We're looking forward to connecting with new and old followers. Help us spread the word and stay tuned for updates! #BCLT #Bluesky #literarytranslation
Back home after my first experience of London Book Fair yesterday, exhausted but also enthused by all the translation/book chats. Translators really are a lovely bunch, aren't they? #lbf2025 #translation
March 12, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Back home after my first experience of London Book Fair yesterday, exhausted but also enthused by all the translation/book chats. Translators really are a lovely bunch, aren't they? #lbf2025 #translation
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Hello #translation world! Created in 2020 by @cmctranslations.bsky.social & @tinakover.bsky.social, we showcase the world's best #books in translation, read by their talented #translators. #Fiction, #nonfiction, #poetry, & more. #Submissions always open. Check us out! www.youtube.com/@Translators...
Translators Aloud
TRANSLATORS ALOUD: THE VOICE OF TRANSLATED LITERATURE
A place for translators to read their own work; a positive space for sharing great literature, read aloud by the translators themselves.
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February 1, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Hello #translation world! Created in 2020 by @cmctranslations.bsky.social & @tinakover.bsky.social, we showcase the world's best #books in translation, read by their talented #translators. #Fiction, #nonfiction, #poetry, & more. #Submissions always open. Check us out! www.youtube.com/@Translators...